Written by

Joe Verdegan
Press-Gazette Media correspondent

The return to the color green has been a good luck charm for Green Bay's Eric Van Iten.

Van Iten has wheeled his bright green No. 19 modified to two podium finishes with the Badger Mod tour (third at Wilmot Raceway on June 16 and second at Oshkosh Speedzone on July 19) and sits second in the BMT point standings behind Neosho's Mitch McGrath.

A green racecar is a bit of a throwback from Van Iten's days of wheeling fendered IMCA stock cars when he was the Luxemburg Speedway track champion in 2000. ...